MEP Brian Crowley expelled from Fianna Fáil

Ireland South MEP Brian Crowley has been expelled from the Fianna Fáil Parliamentary Party.

It's after the MEP shunned the party's aligned ALDE group in Europe for the Conservative Party-led ECR group, which are viewed as eurosceptics.

In a statement Fianna Fail said the removal of the party whip was a direct consequence of his unilateral decision to change groupings adding that the ideas and principles of the ECR group are totally incompatible with the core principles of Fianna Fáil.

Fellow Ireland South MEP Sean Kelly says the decision is a talking point in the European corridors of power...